Political Pressure Forces Imaginative Thinking to Cut Queues

Summary


Health officials battling to stem the tide of patients visiting North Staffordshire's accident unit are coming up with ever more imaginative ideas to ease the crisis.

The latest one is to pitch a mobile minor injuries unit in Hanley on Friday nights to patch up often drunken revellers who would normally end up in A&E. But with NHS managers admitting that there is not one single cure to the problem, just about everything is being tried.

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Political Pressure Forces Imaginative Thinking to Cut Queues

Many of the initiatives have come from an external review of the local emergenc...

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